SAMSON and THE BURNING BUSH – The Eleventh Plague Has Arrived with a Running Time of a 100 Minutes!
By Ernest Kearney — Why…? Why…? C’mon, why…? Really, why…? Why…? Why…?
‘GIDEON AND THE BLUNDERSNORP’ – Michael Gordon Shapiro Provides Music, Mayhem and Monster – You Bring the Laughs!
By Ernest Kearney — All through the enforced isolation of the pandemic, denied my needed fix of theatrical smack, desperately watching Zoom shows presented on YouTube to cut the edge off my cravings like an AA dropout knocking back bottles of Nyquil, I dreamt of
Alma Collins’ ‘Strong Like Honey’ Offers Strength Sweetened by Hard Won Insights
By Ernest Kearney - Alma Collins offers invaluable insights, in this Hollywood Fringe staging at the Hudson Theatre, and shows us that ithe journey can hold priceless discoveries.
‘Killer’s Head’ & ‘The Unseen Hand’ — Adventures in Sam Shepard’s Brain
y Ernest Kearney — The story goes that while giving an interview, many years back, Playwright Edward Albee was asked his opinion as to Sam Shepard. Albee responded with, “He writes good plays – about every third one.”
The Unadulterated Satisfaction in ‘Great Expectations’
The Tvolution is reprinting the following review, in anticipation of the upcoming production of “A Christmas Carol,” playing at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, December 4 through December 8.
Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Take the Stand in “Sisters In Law”
By Ernest Kearney — Jonathan Shapiro’s "Sisters in Law" now at the Wallis is based on Linda Hirshman’s bestselling dual biography on Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first and second women to serve on the Supreme Court.
“Never Ever Land” Explores the Crimes of the Accusers
By Ernest Kearney — In their theatrical variation of the Three Card Monty scam entitled Never Ever Land on the stage of Theatre Unleashed, Playwright Rider Strong and Director Michael A. Shepperd have deployed all the needed dramatic elements –
“Scraps”… Smaller Pieces Please.
By Ernest Kearney — The best theatre I’ve seen has been on bare stages, under looming oak trees, in gloomy, ramshackle homes. So whenever I walk into an equity-waver house and I see a really superbly designed (and undoubtedly expensive) set it always makes me
“The Trial Of Dali” — A Good Argument for Reinstating the Death Penalty
By Ernest Kearney — The Drama Theatre Fantazja from Sydney, Australia arrived at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019 with an international cast and a beautifully produced staging of "The Trial of Dali" by playwright Andrew Kolo.
“(Im) Perfekt” — Self Awareness vs Self Appearance
By Ernest Kearney — Are we the sum of our parts, or our parts themselves? Can we ever be free to be fully ourselves independent of our features?